Are You Out of Your Mind with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The brain’s 100 billion neurons speak to each other by chemical and electrical signaling, and this complicated communication provides us with everything we know and defines who we are. But when it is led astray, we can end up with false memories, hallucinations, and many other misunderstandings of the world around us. Learn about the role of the hippocampus in memory, the effects of LSD on the brain, the possible medical uses of LSD and other psychotropic drugs, and what a 19th century railroad worker named Phineas Gage can teach us about traumatic brain injuries.

Written by Christopher Luard, Author of Such Sweet Thunder Are you a long time meditator who still struggles with runaway emotions? Have you never meditated and are curious how to work with powerful feelings? If...